Hungary national football team: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Team colours
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Current coach
Lothar Matthäus, 2004-
Most capped player
József Bozsik: 101
Highest goalscorer
Ferenc Puskás: 84
First International
Austria 5 - 0 Hungary (Vienna, Austria 12 October, 1902)
Largest win
Tsarist Russia 0 - 12 Hungary (?, Russia; 14 July, 1912)
Hungary 13 - 1 France (Budapest, Hungary; 12 June, 1926)
Largest defeat
Hungary 0 - 7 England (Budapest, Hungary; 10 June, 1908)
Germany 7 - 0 Hungary (Köln, Germany; 6 April, 1941)
World Cup
Finals appearances: 9 (First: 1934) Best result: Runners-up 1938, 1954
European Championships
Finals appearances: 2 (First: 1964) Best result: 3rd place, 1964

The Hungary national football team is controlled by the Hungarian Football Federation. Hungary have reached the World Cup final twice, losing to Italy 4-2 in 1938 and 3-2 to West Germany in 1954, despite beating them 8-3 earlier in the competition.

The match between Austria and Hungary in Vienna in 1902 was the first international match played between two non-British European countries.

Hungary was the first team to beat England at home, famously winning 6-3 at Wembley in 1953. They beat England 7-1, this time in Budapest a year later, in 1954. This is still England's record defeat.

Hungary had a run of 29 matches unbeaten between 14 May 1950 and 4 July 1954, when they lost the World Cup final to Germany. This was a record for nearly 40 years, until Argentina put together a string of 31 unbeaten matches from 1991 to 1993.

World Cup record

• 1930 - Did not enter
• 1934 - Quarter-finals
• 1938 - Runners up
• 1950 - Did not enter
• 1954 - Runners up
• 1958 - Round 1
• 1962 - Quarter-finals
• 1966 - Quarter-finals
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Round 1
• 1982 - Round 1
• 1986 - Round 1
• 1990 - Did not qualify
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Did not qualify
• 2002 - Did not qualify

• Jószef Bozsik
• Nandor Hidegkuti
• Sandor Kocsis
• Ferenc Puskás